High Llamas / Talahomi Way

Drag City

formats available

CD
$13.75
DC 469 CD
781484046929
Street Date:
April 19th, 2011
Ship Date:
April 11th, 2011
LP
$17.25
DC 469
781484046912
Street Date:
April 19th, 2011
Ship Date:
April 11th, 2011

For the past eighteen years, THE HIGH LLAMAS have been following their own lights, making records, and essentially occupying their own genre in doing so. Their music is timeless; elements of retro and modern share the space, creating a unique time and place that is outside the lines of history as we experience it. Talahomi Way is the latest evolution in their body of work, a record that will please those who enjoy their musical adventures while also providing a draft of their eternal mystery to neophyte listeners. In the course of their post-millennial albums, The High Llamas sound has shifted subtly into a more organic setting—gone are the slick, electric-band settings of their great ‘90s albums Gideon Gaye, Hawaii and the rest. With 2003’s Beet Maize and Corn, Can Cladders (2007), and now Talahomi Way, their arrangements have breathed with acoustic space, giving the music a more intimate, personal resonance. Still, SEAN O’HAGAN’s lyric-writing is in the great traditions of the American and British 20th century songbook: story-songs, impressionistic feel-pieces, crafted without an aim towards personal exposition. Even so, their set and focus provide a view to the world as he sees it. No Export to Europe. No CD export to Japan. (STREET DATE - 4/19/2011)